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Album	You	Global	Diff
Southern Rock Opera Drive-By Truckers	5	2.81	+2.19
Giant Steps The Boo Radleys	5	2.88	+2.12
Wild Gift X	5	3	+2
Another Green World Brian Eno	5	3.11	+1.89
Soul Mining The The	5	3.17	+1.83
The Renaissance Q-Tip	5	3.25	+1.75
Mama's Gun Erykah Badu	5	3.25	+1.75
Neon Bible Arcade Fire	5	3.34	+1.66
It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back Public Enemy	5	3.36	+1.64
Lost In The Dream The War On Drugs	5	3.38	+1.62

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The Doors The Doors	1	3.95	-2.95
Straight Outta Compton N.W.A.	1	3.51	-2.51
The Downward Spiral Nine Inch Nails	1	3.34	-2.34
Beautiful Freak Eels	1	3.27	-2.27
Little Earthquakes Tori Amos	1	3.22	-2.22
Are You Experienced Jimi Hendrix	2	4.14	-2.14
Henry's Dream Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	1	3.1	-2.1
Music For The Jilted Generation The Prodigy	1	3.07	-2.07
No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith (Live) Motörhead	1	3.07	-2.07
Water From An Ancient Well Abdullah Ibrahim	1	3.03	-2.03

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Popular Reviews

This Is Hardcore

Pulp · 1 likes

2/5

I am mot Jesus tho I have the same initials…

Fun House

The Stooges · 1 likes

2/5

Can’t imagine choosing to listen to this

1-Star Albums (18)

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Southern Rock Opera

Drive-By Truckers

5/5

What a ride. Funny, sad, made me roll my eyes, made me nostalgic all at the same time. Three Great Alabama Icons was arresting in a way I haven’t experienced in so long. Will definitely listen again

Bringing It All Back Home

Bob Dylan

4/5

Not my favorite Dylan but a lot of good stuff! Stand outs are Mr. Tambourine Man,Love Minus Zero, and Baby Blue. Sometimes I tune out in the long songs but who’s to blame me

Electric Ladyland

Jimi Hendrix

4/5

I struggled paying attention and getting through the longer songs, but it was cool to see rainy day dream away in context. I also liked the atmospheric stuff and feel like it would have been so cool to see live. Excited to listen to more Hendrix

Play

Moby

4/5

really blown away by this one.

A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Coldplay

3/5

Nostalgic for sure. Clocks was fun

The Gershwin Songbook

Ella Fitzgerald

5/5

Beautiful. She knows what it feels like to be in love, and to be out of it. What a treat, even though it was long.

Little Earthquakes

Tori Amos

1/5

I can tell she was giving it her all and I respect her for that but it just didn’t really hit for me

Colour By Numbers

Culture Club

2/5

Fun listen but I don’t think I’ll do it again

Surf's Up

The Beach Boys

2/5

Didn’t realize how corny The Beach Boys are, but there’s certainly a time and place. I really liked a day in the life of a tree, of course

The Yes Album

Yes

4/5

Great listen for Father’s Day. Excited for more

Water From An Ancient Well

Abdullah Ibrahim

1/5

Not my favorite jazz—kind of busy, better dancing music than easy listening imo

A Wizard, A True Star

Todd Rundgren

1/5

Weird

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins

2/5

I don't really get the hype

The Doors

1/5

Not my fave, but want to listen to more

The Renaissance

Q-Tip

5/5

Really fucked with this album. Very 2008 and just a generally fun and energizing listen

Music For The Jilted Generation

The Prodigy

1/5

Not my bag

We Are Family

Sister Sledge

4/5

Excellent listen. Really fun, start to finish. Loved the remixes especially

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

Public Enemy

5/5

Amazing listen. Listened the same day I watched Do the Right Thing for the first time during a Bed-Stuy heatwave. Transformative

Wild Gift

5/5

Really loved this album! Didn’t know the band at all but combines a lot of elements I really dig.

Birth Of The Cool

Miles Davis

2/5

I just don’t like jazz all that much but this was an ok listen

Felt Mountain

Goldfrapp

2/5

Didn’t like, weird and not for me.

Superfly

Curtis Mayfield

2/5

Nothing to write home about but a groovy listen!

Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul

Otis Redding

4/5

Really beautiful album. Soaring vocals and melodies. Pleasure to listen to his interpretations of a lot of these hits, even if they’re not my personal fave versions.

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

3/5

One of my first real listens of funk. I liked it, but still not a huge fan of the long songs. But more tolerable here for sure. “More power to the pussy/more pussy to the people” preach

The Nightfly

Donald Fagen

4/5

Really enjoyed this one! Excited for more steely dan

John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band

John Lennon

2/5

I can see why everyone hated Yoko Ono… although this is ofc in John for having a bad solo career.

C'est Chic

CHIC

3/5

Not my favorite disco/funk but a fun listen overall!

Beautiful Freak

Eels

1/5

I really didn’t like anything about this

Head Hunters

Herbie Hancock

2/5

I guess I don’t like jazz that much

The Sounds Of India

Ravi Shankar

3/5

I love albums like this. Def want to relisten

Moving Pictures

Rush

2/5

Nothing to write home about

Purple Rain

Prince

4/5

I had to warm up to this album, the first bit def wasn’t as strong as the second half. Let me just say prince I wasn’t familiar with your game …. Respect

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

3/5

Nothing to blow me away but a fun listen. Not sure if I’ll come back to these a ton but I liked hometown blues

Lust For Life

Iggy Pop

5/5

This rocked

No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith (Live)

Motörhead

1/5

Not my vibe but I’m sure it would be a concert. And too long

Hotel California

Eagles

3/5

Had some stand outs but otherwise pretty easy listening tbh

Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division

2/5

For a band called joy division they’re not very joyful

Untitled (Black Is)

SAULT

3/5

A pretty long album and some of the songs weren’t it for me but I liked the artist and want to listen more

good kid, m.A.A.d city

Kendrick Lamar

5/5

No skip album

Rio

Duran Duran

2/5

Not world changing. Sort of eh but I think my dad had this album.

Music

Madonna

2/5

Fun but not revelatory for me personally

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

3/5

I can tell why ppl love this

The Chronic

Dr. Dre

4/5

Fun and funny but some of the skits were gross. Liked public enemy and Kendrick better but this was also v good

Automatic For The People

R.E.M.

4/5

Really liked this one

Another Green World

Brian Eno

5/5

Audio nostalgia. Five star album.

Tuesday Night Music Club

Sheryl Crow

4/5

a nice throwback. I can imagine what this would be like listening for the first time

Diamond Life

Sade

4/5

Really fun to listen to the bass lines on this one

Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music

Ray Charles

3/5

I feel like I wouldn’t really call this country and western but it was fun to listen to. Not my fave of all the covers tho

Music From Big Pink

The Band

4/5

This was a fun listen! Cool to hear take a load off in context

Phrenology

The Roots

4/5

Excited to listen to more of the roots. Liked this one a lot, probs more than Dr Dre

Brutal Youth

Elvis Costello

2/5

Billy joel but worse imo

(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd)

Lynyrd Skynyrd

5/5

What can I say, this album blew my mind the first time I heard it back in college. I was going through my uncle’s vinyl’s. He passed from AIDS in the early 90’s, several years before I was born. Listening to his music was a way for me to get closer to him. I have a lot to say about this album—Gimmie Three Steps spoke to me under a queer listening, imaging myself flirting with some guy’s girlfriend. I can see a queer country reworking of that song in modern day and I always love singing along when it comes on. You can’t bring up Lynyrd Skynyrd and not talk about the Confederate flag and feud with Nike Young. I think the Drive-By Truckers did an excellent job examining this in their album Southern Rock Opera, getting to the root of “the southern thing” and how politicians weaponize racist symbols and policies to divide a region where nearly everyone’s neck is under the same boot. The real southern thing is seeding division among the people and breaking class solidarity so that everyone can be exploited—and I think the finger pointing that comes from northerners is just a hammer in that toolbox.

Venus Luxure No. 1 Baby

Girls Against Boys

1/5

Not interested

Henry's Dream

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

1/5

No offense but who put this on here

Go Girl Crazy

The Dictators

3/5

Fun!

Lost In The Dream

The War On Drugs

5/5

Loved this one

Merriweather Post Pavilion

Animal Collective

3/5

Fun!

Microshift

Hookworms

3/5

Good listening for my acupuncture appt but I think I liked the last album more

New Wave

The Auteurs

2/5

Fun but nothing to write home about imo

With The Beatles

Beatles

5/5

No skips album. My grandparents saw this on tour, and I have a ticket to the show taped on the album cover of the albums vinyl.

Searching For The Young Soul Rebels

Dexys Midnight Runners

1/5

….i was hoping for more

In The Court Of The Crimson King

King Crimson

2/5

Don’t judge an album by its cover except this one

Logical Progression

LTJ Bukem

1/5

This walked so the challengers soundtrack could run

This Is Hardcore

Pulp

2/5

I am mot Jesus tho I have the same initials…

Fragile

Yes

4/5

Really enjoyed this one and all the diverse instrumental tracks

O.G. Original Gangster

Ice T

4/5

A revelation

Apocalypse 91… The Enemy Strikes Black

Public Enemy

4/5

I prefer it takes a nation of millions, I think, but loved this one as well.

Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

2/5

I only really liked one song from this album. This guy just sounds like guyliner embodied. He’s great at what he does but it’s just really not for me

Imagine

John Lennon

2/5

I don’t think he really protected yoko with this work and can see why the world came for her, although I am a yoko ono apologist. Imagine is one of the corniest songs ever but has done a lot of good, I think

Mama's Gun

Erykah Badu

5/5

Love this album. No notes

Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury

The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy

2/5

This felt like if we didn’t start the fire, schoolhouse rock and public enemy had a baby. I like political hip hop but it was a bit too much for me and not enough musical chops. I would have preferred to read an essay by him. Some did make me giggle but the rhymes weren’t there imo

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill

4/5

Really loved so much of this album but it didn’t blow me away the way that mama’s gun did. I think maybe all the hype around it set my expectations really high. I think perhaps the album was too long for me and if it were condensed it would have stuck more. But a lot of really great bangers

Crossing the Red Sea With the Adverts

The Adverts

1/5

Some punk is seriously mediocre

Neon Bible

Arcade Fire

5/5

Loved this album. Felt like coming home in a way I totally didn’t expect

All Hail the Queen

Queen Latifah

2/5

Bit let down I won’t lie

The Köln Concert

Keith Jarrett

2/5

Why does this man have to be groaning so much. I kept thinking there was a weirdo next to me on the street as I walked through NYC. Otherwise, I liked it fine.

To Pimp A Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar

3/5

To me, not as good as good kid maad city but still some really great bangers.

Warehouse: Songs And Stories

Hüsker Dü

2/5

Illmatic

Nas

5/5

Life’s a bitch and then you die! This one was really fun.

Electric Music For The Mind And Body

Country Joe & The Fish

2/5

There are three distinct songs on this album and every other one sounds like a remix of the other

American Pie

Don McLean

4/5

Didn’t realize how much Don McLean sounded like John Denver. I really like Vincent, more than I thought I would.

Let It Bleed

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Fave stones I’ve listened to so far! Like a nice tight album, too. Very relistenable

Fred Neil

3/5

Enjoyed a few of them, excited to listen to more of Fred Neil. Didn't blow my socks off tho. But a good vibe.

You Are The Quarry

Morrissey

3/5

I like how pathetic he is

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Elton John

2/5

I just don’t really like this guy. Sue me.

American Idiot

Green Day

3/5

No importa si te gusta green day

Lady In Satin

Billie Holiday

3/5

Not a very memorable listen compared to her other stuff but I liked it

Sunday At The Village Vanguard

Bill Evans Trio

3/5

Let It Be

The Replacements

4/5

Fun to see the whole album after loving androgynous for a long time. Answering machine does some cool stuff with sound

L.A. Woman

The Doors

2/5

I don’t like dad rock I guess

Figure 8

Elliott Smith

4/5

Beautiful

The Rising

Bruce Springsteen

2/5

Why is this on here? Too Christian rock for me and just overall very mid

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

PJ Harvey

2/5

Nothing for me to write home about personally but not offensive

Songs In The Key Of Life

Stevie Wonder

4/5

Really enjoyed this but too damn long

...Baby One More Time

Britney Spears

4/5

Fuck all the haters in the reviews. God forbid someone perceive you listening to a young woman sing. This shit was revolutionary at the time, grow the fuck up

The Dark Side Of The Moon

Pink Floyd

3/5

I guess I’m too normie, or too sober for this. Liked a few tracks tho but a lot were noise to me

G. Love And Special Sauce

G. Love & Special Sauce

2/5

Listened without paying attention, liked the energy. Listened again paying attention and was shocked at how bad it was and was just praying the album would end but it kept going

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

5/5

Perfect album except oh daddy

Time Out

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

4/5

Maybe I do like jazz!

1989

Taylor Swift

4/5

This album grew on me over time. Clean is one of the best songs ever, sorry

In Rainbows

Radiohead

4/5

Really enjoyed this

Apocalypse Dudes

Turbonegro

1/5

Pass

Soul Mining

The The

5/5

Really fucked w this album

Blackstar

David Bowie

2/5

Underwhelmed, sort of like the Springsteen one. Why this one here

Fulfillingness' First Finale

Stevie Wonder

4/5

Extremely lovely

Fun House

The Stooges

2/5

Can’t imagine choosing to listen to this

Tom Tom Club

3/5

Weird but fun

Stardust

Willie Nelson

2/5

I mean, sure

The Downward Spiral

Nine Inch Nails

1/5

Genuinely difficult and unpleasant listen

Blue Lines

Massive Attack

2/5

I’m sure it changed lives at the time

Good Old Boys

Randy Newman

1/5

What the fuck

Giant Steps

The Boo Radleys

5/5

Sonically interesting and also enjoyable, hard to get the two

The White Room

The KLF

2/5

Sure

Bummed

Happy Mondays

1/5

No redeeming qualities

Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A.

1/5

Public enemy ran so they could summersault backwards

Live 1966 (The Royal Albert Hall Concert)

Bob Dylan

2/5

I do not understand why this is on here. But I like the harmonics

Honky Tonk Masquerade

Joe Ely

2/5

Fine but forgettable, mostly

Green Onions

Booker T. & The MG's

5/5

Sexy and fun. I want a green onion tattoo

Boy In Da Corner

Dizzee Rascal

2/5

Only By The Night

Kings of Leon

2/5

Natural evolution of dad rock

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Kanye West

4/5

Ok unfortunately this was fire. Also unfortunate that he is a nazi. Will I be streaming his music? No but I did like this album

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Wilco

4/5

Weird to think they were making this music when I was in diapers

Sound Affects

The Jam

3/5

Feels unremarkable but I guess they do have 1,001 albums to fill

New York Dolls

2/5

Nothing to write home about. Also are they dolls?

Franz Ferdinand

4/5

Really surprised at how much I liked this one

Chirping Crickets

Buddy Holly & The Crickets

3/5

The crickets is a great band name

Paris 1919

John Cale

4/5

Not sure that I was surprised by how much i liked this. Also John Cale feature on Charli xcx wuthering heights soundtrack???

The Band

3/5

Liked the other band more

Are You Experienced

Jimi Hendrix

2/5

I think I liked the other one better?

Oracular Spectacular

MGMT

2/5

It’s giving commercial background music

Buenas Noches From A Lonely Room

Dwight Yoakam

2/5

I listened to this so many times to find one song I liked to add to my playlist and it was all just really mid. But I liked the country x Mexican fusion

Strangeways, Here We Come

The Smiths

2/5

Stupid, stupid songs

Toys In The Attic

Aerosmith

2/5

Liked this until I read the pedophile comments :(

The xx

3/5

Very very good to work to but her voice bothers me a bit lol

My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts

Brian Eno

1/5

This sounded like I was pressing all the sound effect keys on my keyboard. Why is this on here

Closer

Joy Division

2/5

better than the last JD album I listened to but I wouldn't listen again on purpose

At Newport 1960

Muddy Waters

3/5

The slang from back then was wild lol

Kilimanjaro

The Teardrop Explodes

2/5

Boooo

Ctrl

SZA

3/5

Love you sweetie just not my fave

Killing Joke

2/5

Ehhhh don’t make me listen to this

Survivor

Destiny's Child

2/5

This album is so crazy like what do you mean there’s bootylicious, nasty girl/fancy, and the outro praising god and sisterhood?? Honestly so annoying to listen to

Out Of The Blue

Electric Light Orchestra

4/5

This was really fun actually. I was just thinking “who is electric light orchestra” the other day

Shaka Zulu

Ladysmith Black Mambazo

4/5

Very extremely lovely. The lip smacking sort of got me tho lol

Endtroducing.....

DJ Shadow

3/5

Honestly, I liked this a lot more than I thought, and liked it better on a second listening. All the sampling is sort of weird and annoying to me personally but the downbeat change in organ donor made my jaw drop and immediately start the song over like 4 separate times

Urban Hymns

The Verve

3/5

Bittersweet symphony is kinda the most annoying song on this album but their vibes were good overall. Moodier than I expexted

Bug

Dinosaur Jr.

3/5

I’m sure it’s carthartic to do a screamo song. Considerate of them to limit it to one on the album

Golden Hour

Kacey Musgraves

3/5

I think I’ve grown out of this a lot, there are a few songs that still hit but the songwriting sort of feels like miss rachel (like happy and sad). Pageant material and same trailer different park are way better imo. She also just sings like she’s laying down on a couch but not in a good way, like diva try to put a little more edge in your voice. But this is the supermarket music I like ig

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bruce Springsteen

2/5

I’ve said it before I’ll say it again. Why is this on here.

The Genius Of Ray Charles

Ray Charles

4/5

Not my favorite of his but still a lovely listen would do again

Disraeli Gears

Cream

5/5

Tbh I loved this. Was thrown off by the name tho